[cmake-developers] Visual Studio Add Custom Target marked Build

[J Decker]

Oh, I can have it build INSTALL.vcxproj instead of my_project.sln with
target INSTALL.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:17 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:09 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> You can get "install_foo" to build always if you include "ALL" as an arg to
>> add_custom_target.
>>
>> You cannot use "INSTALL" in an add_dependencies call, though. Rather, you
>> could list the executables that you need built *before* an install could be
>> successful -- that should be equivalent, but requires you to list them
>> explicitly. See http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8438 for more
>> details.
>>
> Hmm, but what I'm really trying to accomplish is to build INSTALL...
> listing the things to build before the install will end up just
> building those... and ya, so adding ALL made it a circular dependency
> list that won't work unless it's a static library(according to vs2010)
>
> if I could have the install target marked to be built that would be
> just as fine.
>
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> how to add a custom target which is marked as build in a visual studio
>>> solution output?
>>>
>>> I really am trying to get away from devenv, when using devenv, it will
>>> build the INSTALL target even though it's not marked for build.  But
>>> MSBuild isn't so gracious.... so I added
>>>
>>>  ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET( install_foo )
>>>  ADD_DEPENDENCIES( install_foo INSTALL )
>>>
>>> but target 'install_foo' also isn't marked to be built.
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